That the finances of Peru have long gone given the devil is really point less than patently obvious. Fortunately, we Peruleros people give as good pasta, you damned if you lie in the thing stopped.
"But, sector, what we have spent so many thousands? -Often ask some Homobono.
-In snuff for the king, "answered a smiling old man, and point to mouth.
The chorus in this snuff for the king has been born only (cavilo me one day), and tell me to look for its origin, which, without leaving any hint of doubt, is as follows:
Don Fermín de Carvajal Vargas, a native of Chile, ninth and last postmaster general of the Indies, Count of Puerto and the Castillejo Valfondo lord, knight of Santiago, and later lieutenant general the kingdom, bulk of Spain and first Duke of San Carlos, emblazoned descent from the Kings of Leon at the same time of the first conquerors of Peru. Mayor of the City Council of Lima and highly paid of their scrolls, the count gave the flower to deal with little regard to the Viceroy, who amostazó and accounted for after a snub. From then on it was mutual antipathy between them and enemy.
The Castillejo
arrayed his considerable estate, and very round of fortune went to Spain.
Since that time the Duke of San Carlos began to appear on the front line in the court of Madrid. The eldest son of Don Fermin and his successor in the title was born in Lima, and as a writer earned the distinction of being director of the Royal English Academy, an honor that today (1883) also enjoys other Lima (Don Juan de la Pezuela, Chester County.) The third Duke of San Carlos, also born in Lima, was the favorite of Ferdinand VII, and their machinations is due the abdication of Charles IV. Second son of the first Duke of San Carlos was the famous Count de la Union, Lima illustrious took command of the English armies in the campaign of Roussillon and died heroically in the battlefield.
seems Amat was reported that the court dealt in damage Fermin, and on that occasion he wrote a letter somewhat hard. This is unknown to us, but we view (among the manuscripts of the National Library) that answered the count, Cadiz dated November 6, 1775.
intemperate letter from the Duke of San Carlos will copy the following lines, because they agree to our purpose:
"If my ancestors had not sacrificed their substantial income in honor and defense of the monarchy, more overtaking enjoy the that achievement. Téngolo well justified, is beyond question, nor that VE has been well paid for their services and not paid eighty thousand dollars in pacifying the province spent Huarochirí my house in 1750, he has not made nor was VE able to do since its founding, and today it is with convenience, thanks to Peru and not their income, as it prefers throughout Catalonia. When VE is no longer viceroy not only a particular rich, rich from nothing, without having inherited or worked. It is known, and tests, which came a good man to offer 16000 pesos for a government like a glove, and because another upstart provided that 18000 was unattended. Add VE to these accusations and more than three million pesos that were shipped in the city of Santiago de Chile in crates labeled Snuff to the king, and see if there are few positions that have to vanish. "
In Volume XXV of Various Papers Lima Library is a pamphlet of 100 pages 4. º, entitled Drama of the basins, which also speaks of the three million snuff. This pamphlet, an anonymous author, contains many chismecillos on the private life of viceroy Amat.
And so beside the point, let us here record that was in 1753 when it was made in Lima real erection at tobacco, playing cards, stamped paper, gunpowder and pitches under the supervision of the Viceroy. In 1800 gastábanse fifty-five thousand dollars annually in salary of employees of Monopoly.
snuff Three million! Smoking is!
And at a time that did not played the guano and saltpeter! Now you decide
entripado whether or not the old phrase when it comes to some great gatuperio rent seeking: snuff for the king.
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